All of my granddaughters love my mother’s hats. They are so different, especially with the net pulled down. There is something mysterious about hiding behind it. Keeley and I talked about it. Did she want to take some photographs in

“Leave everyone wondering which is the most interesting piece of work . . . YOU, or your hat?” -Unknown- journal entry: These are my mother’s hats. They are from the middle 1940s. I am so glad that she kept them.

“HATS, where do you belong? What is under you? On the rim of a skyscraper’s forehead I looked down at fifty thousand hats: Swarming with a noise of bees and sheep, cattle and waterfalls, Stopping with a silence of sea

“They know they’re going to look beautiful, and I don’t think women should look like costumes. They shouldn’t look like fashion victims.” -Ralph Lauren- journal entry: Fancy hats are for anywhere. Fancy hats can be really inexpensive to get your

“Don’t hang your hat higher than you can reach.’ -Author Unknown- journal entry: As a grandma, I wonder about other grandmas. What they do and think and how they get by. Some grandmas have what they need. Some have a